l'HE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. JUNE 4, 1921.
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' JAc Itee' Platform
1. New Union Paitnfr Statioa.
2. Continued improvement of tke Ne
braska Highway, including taa pave
mailt of Main Thoroughfare leading
into Omaha with a Brick Surfac.
3. A abort, low-rate Waterway from tha
Cora Bait to tha Atlantic Ocean.
4. Homa Rula Chartor for Omaha, with
City Manager form of Coraramaat,
. Hoover's Committee Reports.
A summing up of conditions in industry, re
ported by the American engineering council's
committee, discloses some of the basic causes
foe stagnation. Fifty per cent of the waste in
industrial processes is laid at the door o! manage
ment, and less than 25 per cent at the door of
labor, by the committee, which was appointed by
Herbert Hoover, when he was at the head of the
council. Factors of unemployment, of over
head expenses, and all the hems that enter into
the general problem have been considered in the
process of reaching the conclusion.
This information will doubtless come as a
shock to many employers, individually and asso
ciated, who have felt that they had reached, a
high plane in efficiency and had their manage
ment systematized to such degree that all avoid?,
able waste had been eliminated. Experts seem
ingly do not agree with this, and are inclined to
disturb the complacency of those employers.
Locating some of the cause contributing to the
result, the committee cites huge investments in
idle machinery, the enormous cost of excessive,
labor turnover, and the expense of duplication
in bids and plans in building operations and the.
like.
Restriction of output is laid at the door of
capital and labor alike. Neither can evade re
sponsibility for this count in the charge. Under
the mistaken notion that decreased production
meant increased opportunity for employment,
workmen have let down in their efforts, while
the employers have sought to maintain selling
prices by keeping up an artificial scarcity. Both
of these are wrong, for the reason that the more,
there is produced the more there is to -divide,
and when nothing is brought forth there i noth
ing to share.
One other contributing cause has been the
practice of "cost plus." In its principle, it is
thfe sound way of doing business; in its latter
day application it is the most destructive agency,
that ever assailed American industry. Once the
successful man depended on his faculty for man
agement, which includes the several elements of
doing business. Now he relies on the combina
tion that shuts off competition and controls
prices. Any man who can break into the com
bine can succeed, no matter what sort of man
ager he is. When a competitive basis is re
established, and profit on it job depends on the
ability of the man in charge to handle men and
material, and not on the amount of money spent,
something like prosperity will be restored to the
country.
That day can not be postponed much longer.
Owners of idle plants feel the need of operating
'them; idle workmen need employment, and the
public needs the output. Not much is gained
by fixing responsibility for waste unless with it
comes a revival of effort supported by a de
termination to correct exposed mistakes, and to
give value received in goods and labor.
"In the Movies They Do It."
Pirate stories, and we commend them to the
tired business man as a first-dais '.'brain duster,"
always present the picture of an evil face, smoke
stained and lowering, just above the bulwark' of
' Jkt doomed vessel, with a wicked looking knife
oeiwccn ic icciu, m even a jjiiaic s uiuuin is
big enough to get a good firm grip on the pistol
a pirate is expected to carry, and that is why we
: look askance at a tale that comes from Cheyenne.
It tells how a deputy sheriff aided in captur
ing two desperadoes near Bridgeport He
stripped, stuck his pistol between his teeth and
swam across the North Platte river to an island,
where the criminals, armed with rifles, were
standing off a posse on shore. Two points here
stimulate. First, we gravely doubt if a pistol
that a swimmer might carry any distance in his
teeth would be of much service in a frontier
melee. Certainly it was not one' of those full-"
. grown, robust .45s old-timers out in that neigh
borhood were familiar with. .i-)-.'
Again, if the deputy were of such stature that
he was forced to swim any considerable distance
in the North Platte at Bridgeport, where the er
rant river meanders aimlessly all over a maze of
. sandbars and through such a multitude of chan
nels that even the smartest can not tell which is
the river-and which the snye, then he couldn't
tote a regularly ordained deputy sheriff's six
shooter, even in a holster. .
Something is wrong somewhere with that story.
We are ready to admit that the deputy crossed
the river to the island, that he did carry a pVol,
and that he did capture the fugitive Mr "cuns.
But we are profoundly sceptical as to ' Ty
ing a pistol in his teeth, or swimmh . r . reat
distance in the North Piatt live- : j po.at
Partner of Providence. ,:
Rain that was badly needed by the growing
Reheat and the sprouting corn hat .Wtr.
generally in Nebraska within the last few da?s.
Nature is looking after her own. The earth has
been well warmed by the sun and now the mois
ture will Refresh every growing thing.
Just as is the killing of the peach" crr-y .y
frost rumored every year, so are premature pre
dictions of calamnity from dry weather made for
other products.. Between a good harvest and a
short one there can be but one choice. The
farmer will always take, the big yield, and quite
rightly. The full duty of all those engaged in
agriculture has been done and the rest remains
with nature. Worrying about dry weather or
about washouts will not affect the result in the
least, nor is there any precaution such as is
possible in most other industries by which safety
and success can be assured. , The farmer is truly
the partner of Providence, and as such has to
take more risks than any other business man.
A Visit to Radium Land.
The illness that has befallen Madame Curie
will prevent her visiting one of the principal
sources of radium in the world. Her trip to the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado remains uncan
celled, but will not take her into the isolated dis
tricts where the precious carnotite ore is found.
To obtain a gram of 'radium, 250 tons of
carnotite must be searched through and put
through a refining process. One place in which
this mineral is found is in narrow seams in the
rather aptly named Undark mines of the Paradox
valley of Colorado. It has then to be trans
ported 60 miles by mule team across desert and
mountain trails, and thence by rail to T3rangr,
N. J. There are several other similar mines in
the southwest, but the total output of all for 1917
was only 26 grams of radium. . ,
Radium is the most valuable element in the
world, made' so by its scarcity and by the diffi
culty in isolating It after it has been found. One
gram, the product of 250 tons of ore hauled
painfully over rough trails, costs $120,000 and in
sire is about enough to fill a thimble. An ounce
of platinum, which is more precious than gold,
is worth only $150. Radium is so powerful that
when mixed with other materials even a minute
particle will make surfaces self-luminous for
years. It is this quality that makes radium
luminous material commercially possible. One
large use for radium is for the illumination of
watch faces. .
No doubt Madame Curie would have liked
to venture into the country where a great por
tion of the supply of the element which she dis
covered is mined, but in her visit to the Grand
Canyon she will at least be in the neighborhood
of the district where radium is.foLt.d.
Stepping on State's Rights.
Ancient principles and beliefs are coming in
for some rather rough treatment these days, es
pecially at xhe hands of congress. One of the
most substantial of all American doctrines has
been that which allows each state sovereign con
trol over affairs within its borders, where such
control does not actually transcend the Constitu
tion of the United States, and is not contrary to
good public policy. If a measure offered in the
senate by Mr. Kellogg of Minnesota should be
come a law, the doctrine will receive a blow that
wilt just about end its usefulness. Under the
provisions of the bill the president is authorized
"to maintain through federal -courts and other
wise and irrespective of any state law, the rights
of aliens in the United States." Aimed directly
at the anti-Japanese law of California, which is
to some extent copied in Nebraska, the measure
will permit, the invasion of a state at any time
by the federal power. Nullifying state control
of the interests of its people, the measure opens
the door to possible abuses that are so obvious
as to require no elaboration, Now a direct chan
nel is open for the invocation of the federal
power. When local authorities certify to the
governor that- the processes of the courts can
not be enforced, the state executive is - obliged
to call on the president of the United States for
assistance to restore order. On a very recent
occasion Mr. Harding declined to send federal
troops to a scene of disorder, holding it to be
the business of the state authorities to put down
the trouble. He was right, in this. The Kellogg
measure will not aid in settling the Japanese
question, nor do much to strengthen popular
government. .
Clearing the Way for the Came).
HoWing that the Volstead act repeals all
parts of the internal revenuejaw not consistent
with the later statute,' the supreme court is
gradually clearing the way for the enforcement
of prohibition. Many district attorneys and cir
cuit court judges have been perplexed and puz
zled by conflicting' passages in the laws, and
sometimes in seeking to harmonize them have
decided in favor of the older regulations. That
these, are definitely superseded is now announced
by the higher court, and all actions commenced
for violation )f the revenue laws will probably
be abandoned in favor of prosecution under the
Volstead act." Some offenders may profit by the
decision, in that they will be relieved frbm dan
ger of punishment for offenses charged, but this
merely shifts' them from the Scylla of one to the.
Charybdis of the other law. The camel is com
ing, all right, and while his way may be a little
bit jerky and seemingly uncertain, he is surely
mopping up the wet spots.
A Farm Unit in Congress.
Closer regard add more effective work for
the interests of the middle west re to be ex
pected from the formation of what is known as
the "agrarian bloc" in the senate. A similar or
ganization is reported to be under contempla
tion in the lower house, and between the two,
the needs of agriculture could be much more
strongly presented.
No one needs have any fear that the farmers
are going to obtain any special advantages that
will react on the urban population. Agriculture
has always been so situated that the farmers
have the worst of it They are not seeking o
drag other industries down to the present eco
nomic condition of agriculture, but only to lift
agriculture up to the general level
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The French embassy's aif attache, who re
fused to return to Washington in the airplane
hich later killed seven passengers, showei
nore courage in his refusal than he would
jave done if he had merely gone along with
the crowd. " ' .
Hoover's Housing Inquiry
What Causes Stagnation in
Building May Be Learned
(From the Boston Transcript)
The seven engineering experts who have been
called upon by the secretary of commerce to aid
the department in its search for a solution of
the housing problem will nna mat tne snonage
is still acute. Notwithstanding readjustment in
wages and extensive declines in the cost of build
ing materials, there still exists what Mr. Hoover
describes as "the appalling anomaly of millions
of idle men co-existent with suffering as never
before from underhousing." Efforts to put an
end to this deplorable condition have not met
with that degree of success for which the optim
ists hoped. There has probably been ameliora
tion of the situation in many cities because of
the shifting of population due to business de
pression, but, in the main,' the urgent need of
more houses and apartments continues.
In New York, which, perhaps, has suffered
the most of all the great cities in the country
because of lack of housing, there is prospect of
another winter of acute shortage. Building ma
terials dealers, who have been slashing their
prices to consumers, have been wondering why
there was not more building. . There is stated
to be nowhere near the volume of contracts
that there should be at this time of the- year in
consideration of the vast potential building move
ment and the approach of the October renting
season. It is to be remembered, in this con
nection, .that New York, under the provisions of
the state law, has passed an ordinance which
exempts new dwellings and apartments from
taxation for the term of 10 years. Yet with
building materials approachiig. prewar level, and
with tax exemption euivalent to a subsidy of at
least 25 per cent of the cost of construction, the
new houses do not rise in great numbers. It
has been claimed, to be sure, that, as the result
of the exemption ordinance, there has been an
increase in construction as compared with last
year, but this increase has been expressed in
percentages, and an increase of 100 per cent or
more would not mean new dwellings in sufficient
numbers to go far in removing the shortage, for
a year ago building was practically at a stand
still. To bring relief in substantial measure
would require a volume of building operations
many fold that of the recent past 1
When it comes to the causes of the continued
stagnation, there is evidence of a disposition to
attribute it largely to the intention of the specu
lative builder to see the market for labor and
material down to the lowest point before he en
ters it That point may have been reached or
nearly-approached, but he is suspicious. Prob
ably the disclosures in the investigation made by
the Lockwood committee increases that sus
picion.. There is a natural desire on the part of
the man who intends to build to be sure that he
is not to be made the victim of crooked labor
leaders aftd crooked contractors. The feeling
that prices have not yet struck bottom may be
regarded as causing delay in the resumption of
building even in cities where there have been no
accusations of dishonesty in the building trades.
This condition suggests one of the many ways
in which the committee named by Mr. Hoover
may be ot value. Iht public wants to know
where to turn for trustworthy information as to
what to expect m the matter of both costs and
service. It .iieeds authoritative advice from a
disinterested source. When the public has the
assurance that it is getting a square deal a long
step forward will have been taken toward the
cure of housing ills. . But supplying information
of that kind would be only one of the ways in
which Mr. Hoover's committee can come to the
aid of the country. With its expert personnel,
it Should be able to suggest methods of stimu
lating building through the introduction of the
new methods and processes. In that way it may
accomplish results that will have enduring value
aner tne present crisis Has passed.
How to Keep Well
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Copyright. 1921, by Dr. W. A. Evan
Xhe Hired Man's Winnings
That there is a disposition on the part of
many men wno a year ago would not consider
work; outside , the centers of population to take
jobs as farm hands is reported by various observ
ers. This is an encotrraging development and
suggests'an improvement in farm conditions. .
. In the .old. days farm work in most parts of
the United States was synonymous with drudg
ery. From sun-up to dark was the working day
for many farm- hands, and. only those who have
gone through a spring planting or an autumn
harvesting under the old conditions can annre-
ciate the strain such toil imposes. Nowadays
farm labor has been systematized and made
easier in many respects.
With changed conditions in the country and a
realization that much of the attraction of the
cities was artificial, men who were drawn to the
towns by war industries are turning to the farms
again. Shorter hews and good wages have also
gained for the farms recruits from the rank
of factory hands on part time, and within the
iast two montns many a man, has been grateful
for the education acquired on the farm. It has
been a satisfaction for him to be able to say the
mysteries, of milking or hitching a double team
were an open book to him.
The rhan who sticks to the soil may never
have as large a bank account as some of those
wno stay close to the pared sidewalks and
streets, but he will have the pleasure of living in
the open and if lie is the owner of even the small.
est farm, bought with the proceeds of the labor
ot nis hands, he will derive from it a satisfaction
which only those who have exoerienceH the teen
joy of walking on their own land can fathom.
JMew York Herald.
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Russia is like -an accordion, collapsing as
frequently with a great deal of noise, but
straightway filling up on air again to its former
proportions.
With warm weather, Sunday motoring ac
cidents reappear on the front page every Monday
morning.
At least the governor knows what Senator
North secretary thinks of him.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow," as the World
Herald said to Mr. Bryan.
June may have been named for Juno, but
Tupiter Pluvius was around.
Banks in -Nebraska fail under right conditions.
the Worst Doesn't Happen.
It i3 estimated by the Department of Asrricul
tore at Washington that an army of 6,000,000
men is going back to the farms from the cities,
eager to aid in harvesting the nation's crops. At
present the supply of farm labor is rated at 95.5
per cent of normal. It is expected that in the
wheat belt of the middle west a mobile force of
50,000 will follow the harvest from Oklahoma
north to the Dakotas and Montana.
One result of this improved labor situation
is the encouragement it gives to farmers to
plant bumper crops. AH reports indicate that
the farmers are putting in larger acreages than
were expected.
So it is demonstrated again that the worst
rarely happens.' Not long ago there; were loud
lamentations over the scarcity of farm labor, and
a gloomy prospect of inability to produce full
crops was presented.
Unemployment in the cities, due to a con
siderable extent to oversupply of labor, is having
the effect that it must always have. It is turning
the idle ones who want to work to the farms
where their services are in demand. Albany
Journal. ' , ' t t
Nominations Are in Order.
Mother and Daughter week being out of the
way, somebody from Traverse City bobs up to
propose a potato day. There is still a little open
time left, but those desiring to originate new
holidays will have to hurry if they get in before
the calendar runs out.- Detroit Free Press.
' "Cold Roast Boston.
The Boston doctor who in connection with
the inheritance of an estate of several million
pounds remarks that he "has not paid much at
tention to it," leads us to wonder what would
cause him to manifest enthusiasm. Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
Let South America Do It.
Why not let South America take her turn at
being the melting pot of the nations? There is
plenty of room down there, and the United
State ha a1reai4v tal.-n in mn,- fn..:
-- -. ."iiwii aj invtv iiv-
ments than she can assimilate in a hundred
years. ban Francisco Chronicle-
AT BRAIN SWITCHBOARD.
Yesterday we published a letter
rrom a school teacher who was
somewhat discouraged because of
the difficulty In teaching a boy 8
years old to read. The boy was
bright In other studies.V but after
two or three yeara in sohool he
knew only six letters and 14 words.
The. fault was something of a
family characteristic, since his
three older brothers had had the
same trouble but ia lesser degree.
He stammered slightly, which de
fect he had grotten from his mother.
A psychologist had found him ap
proximately normal,' except that he
suffered from alexia.
Alexia is a condition In which
the subject sees no meaning in a
printed or written word. There Is
no trouble with vision. The eye sees
the word, but to his mind, it is noth
ing more than a set of straight and
curved lines. For example: The
word horse does not suggest an ani
mal, a horse, but is merely a com
bination of marks. Since it means
nothing the mind does not hold on
to the exact arrangement of the
marks necessary to make the word.
One sees at once that reading Is
rather a complex mental process.
The eye sees the characters, they
register in the visual center in the
brain, thence the impulse travels to
other centers, the combination of
marks stirs up the Imagination
which calls forth the image of a
horse. The memory center may be
stimulated. If the word is spoken,
the impulse travels over to the
speech center and the machinery
for making the word horse is se in
motion. If the reading is continued.
the eye and the attention must trav
el ahead of the word being read at
a properly- adjusted rate and space.
All of this is complicated and re
quires many different nerve cells
and fibers. These telephone ex
changes are normally bound to
gether by a maze of communication
wires. Brains differ in the thor
oughness with which they are
wired with these intercommunicat
ing wires.. Fine brains are well
wired. Poor ones are poorly wired.
The same brain differs in the
grade of wiring in different parts.
A fine orator has his speech center.
his memory center, his reasoning
center, and imagination center well
wired together. A" prize fighter has
little wiring m the above centers.
But he is finely wired in his muscle
centers. A boy with alexia is poor
ly wired in his secondary eight cen
ter. He sees the marks which make
the word horse, but no impulse
travels to his imagination center or
memory center or certain parts of
his perception center.
Alexia was first written about In
1S77, but not much was added to
our knowledge of the subject until
Hinshelwood's paper appeared .in
1917. In 1920 Wallin of St. Louis
studied 95- cases found in the
schools of the city. Of 2,118 diffi
cult pupils sent him for study 4.48
per cent had alexia. It was four
times as prevalent among boys I
6.71 per cent of boys; 1.47 per cent
of girls.
Some of the subjects were more
than average in intellect, having an
I. Q. of 104, although the range o
intelligence was from 64 to 104. The
average of intelligence was some
what low, registering 80.S. In fact,
he set down 85 per cent of them
being definitely subnormal in Intel
lect Among the 95 were 8 that had
speech defects and others that had
chorea, infantilism, other physical
and mental defects and some wh
were in difficulty on account of con
duct, but Wallln could see no rela
tion between these conditions and
alexia. '
Hinshelwood tried to make a dts
Unction between alexia, dyslexia and
word blindness, but Wallin found no
difference between the manlfesta
tions of word blindness in a moron
a border line feeble minded and
normal child. The only essential
he says, is some trouble in the sec
ondary visual center in the brain,
The difficulty there may be due to
an organic brain trouble or it may
be due to faulty development.
The faulty development in that
center may or may not be a part of
a general faulty brain development,
As quoted yesterday, wallin con
eludes that there is considerable
hope that a child with alexia can J
educated and can even be taug
to read fairly well if the teacher has
considerable Ingenuity, ability and
Jnsight.
Corns and Bunions.
Miss TV. M. writes: "What is the
best cure ror corns ana bunions;
"--. REPLY.. '
You can remove corns with the
ordinary corn medicines sold on the
market. They will return unless
you wear proper shoes. Bunions
are a different matter. Unless you
submit to an operation you proba
bly will submit to your bunions as
long as you live. Wearing broad
toed shoes and keeping the toes of
the foot separated by suitable ap
paratus cure a few cases.
About Locomotor Ataxia.
H. L. W. writes: "1. Will you
tt-H me the symptoms of locomotor
ataxia and the cause?
"2. Also myasthenia gravis and
cause?
"3. Is 17 blood, pressure high for
any one years old?
"4. What is the cause of high
blood pressure in a thin person?
, REPLY.
- l.- The cause is syphilis. Among
the early symptoms are lightning-
pains, in the legs principally, gastric
crises, disturbance or gait.
.2. The cause of .myasthenia
gravis, is not known. The most
promininet symptom is profound
weakness. Certain electrical tests
indicate the presence of the disease
in suspected cases.
3.. Yes, about 25 too high.
4. Among the causes are lead
poisoning, syphilis, constipation
heavy meat diet
Nonpartisan Plans.
Omaha, June' 1. To the Editor
of The Bee: Your editorial on the
tionparltsans Js full of partisan poli
cies, as now practiced by the poli
ticians of the republican party, but
never practiced by the founders of
that party under the lead of Abra
ham Lincoln. Therefore, if there is
any unfairness in the common peo
ple trying to redeem that party in
Nebraska under the lead oof Judge
Wray, who has always stood square
for that party under its original
policies,' I for one cannot see any
wrong. Let us have a little clean
politics.
Our governor invited representa-.
fives of labor in a- conference at
Lincoln, evidently to find out what
kind of legislation they wanted so
he could better organize his follow
ers, who were in the majority, to
legislate union labor out of business.
This was done In the anti-picketing
bill, which the governor signed. He,
pulled over the same stunt in the
registration bill for the farmers.
Can you imagine that Lincoln would
have signed either of those bills?
Give . us true republicanism under
judge Wray, and there will be no
kick,- unless from big business;
To what extent is a political party
useful to the citizens of a state like
Nebraska? Only-insofar as it func
tions to the best interests of all the
people, no. difference: how humble
And when it fails to perform that
duty uhder any leader, it is due for
a cleaning. Did it ever occur to
you that today North Dakota is the
only state in the union that ia gov
erned bv the true principles of re
publtcanism? And that a true bill
of rights was granted that state by
the vote of every member of the
supreme court of this nation? Every
hard working - man or woman,
whether in shop or on farm, has as
many rights guaranteed to them
under the constitution as any law
yer, editor or millionaire; and we
are going to see that they get It
A. M. TEMPLIN,
120 . South Thirty-fifth Street
CENTER SHOTS.
Psychologic World
Under Microscope
The French writer who professes
to be afraid of an "entente divorce
probably is more afraid of the way
the alimony will be awarded. Nor
folk (Neb.) News.
A current item says that some
sponges gain a diameter of more
than three feet, but most of us know
sponges that have attained a height
of five ana one-nan leet or over.
Providence Journal.
Short skirts are said to have less
ened the number of accidents to
women. No decrease is reported in
the number of backward-looking
mep who, have- been bumped by au
tomobiles. unicago isews. x-
SPICE OF LIFE.
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a new 'at. an' I tell 'er the old 'at look
fine an' ah alinga the kettle at me an'
I buya r a new 'at well, that' wot
ome rule la!" The Faaain- Show (Lon
don).
Wanted Accountant; muat be able to
read and write. Apply H Laundry.
Want ad in the Catakill Mall.
Vr. Neuveau Rlche (aelectln- De
votional Gift Book) Common Prayer
'avan't you -ot any a bit more clarssy?
London Opinion.
The only trouble with . 40-horae power
otor ia that every darned horae balka
t tha en me time. Lameaen vauy
Courier.
a .ir.nmr renorted to Set. Mlk Mc
Lean that he had Ma grip, overcoat and
umbrella atoien oeiore ne tmis in njwn
two hour. nd he ld, 'There will be
an awful reckoning In thi buri when
Gabriel blow hla horn over It."
Mike replied: uanriei win nv-r oiow
hla horn over tbia town; they 11 teal ltj
before he cl a chance to blow it."
Lackawanna Journal 1
(From the Baltimore American.)
In the course of an address at the
annual convention of the Pennsyl
vania Bankers' ' association, James
M. Beck, the newly appointed solic
itor -general . of the United States,
suggested that the development of
machinery is responsible for the
"unrest" of the present age and
maintained that this "unrest" was
not the heritage of the world war,
but that the world war was a manl
testation of the world "unrest" ,
We are still too near the war to
be quite impartial about it . The
passions and prejudices engendered
by it have not yet died down. All
the evidence about the long chain
of causes which led up to it is not
yet available,-and when it is it will
be conflicting and the wisest and
most impartial of men will differ
about it It is possibly too much to
say that the "unrest" of the last gen
era tion is due to the development of
macninery. wntch began Jn England
at the close of the. 18tlt. century with
what Is called the Industrial Revo
lution. What is clear enough to any
one who .has been, watching the trend
of events is that for the last 20 years
everywhere, and particularly in Eu
rope,-there has been a great deal
of tension, political, industrial, eco
nomic. . In the political world- of
Europe all the elements for an in
ternational explosion were accumjat-
ing in the few years, before 1914,
The industrial countries of Europe
all suffered from acute economic dis
turbance and there was similar fric
tion, though less frequent and wide
spread, in the Vnited States. In
South Africa and Australia it was
no less violent and menacing than
in Europe. ' . ,
There is a great deal to be said
for the solicitor general's view that
the "unrest," to use a descriptive but
vague and not very accurate term,
was at least a predisposing cause of
or facilitated the waging of the
struggle with such intensity. But,
even if this View could be upheld, no
question would be settled, though a
very difficult problem would have
been stated. What brought about
this "unrest," this condition of men
tal strain? No single individual or
group of Individuals, no single
cause or group of related causes.
Contributing to it were the gen
eral- speeding-up process (which
in many cases produced frayed and
irritable nerves); misunderstandings
between capital arm labor and some
times wrong-headed and obstinate
policies, the obstinacy not being con
fined to one side; international rival
ries and competition . for foreign
trade; exaggerated conceatlons of
nationalism, from which none or tne
more powerful nations was wholly
free these are some of the more
obvious causes. Others may be al
leged according to the taste and fan
cy of the individual. . One Of the
sanest and most widely read of liv
ing historians, speaking on the sub
ject of "unrest" two or three yeara
before the war, said that feeling, of
this kind moved in cycles and came
to a head at periodic intervals of
about 30 to 40 years. "Another in
ternational explosion," he significant
ly added, "is about due now." His
forecast was only too emphatically
verified by the events of the years
since 1914. Yet. If the student and
psychologist can analyze national
states of mind, the hopeful thing is
that the next stage will be the pos
sibility of providing remedies for
dangerous conditions of national and
international feeling.
She Was Keyed to It
Judge Graham, K. C, to a woman
at Bow county court: "Can't you
stop talking?'
Woman "I i-nn, but T don t need
much winding-up again." Public
Opinion.
Harvey's Habit.
Whenever Colonel Harvey makes
a speech or writes an editorial it
sounds as if he were trying to get
even with somebody, and we guess
he usually is. Ohio State Journal.
Does' Drove No. 1
Organized Here
Omaha Will Claim Grand
Lodge Headquarters of
Elks' New Auxiliary.
Formal organization of Drove Xo.
1 of the Benevolent and Patriotic
Order of Does was effected yester
day afternoon at the initial meeting
of the drove in the Elks' club rooms.
Dispensation for the organization
of the first local lodge was granted
officially by the grand lodpe at the
first annual meeting May 31.
Nominations of officers of Drove
No. 1 were made at the meeting yes
terday. Election will be in two
weeks, according to Mrs. E. E.
Stanficld, grand patriotic nacinema
of the B. P. O. D.
Omaha will have the distinction of
claiming the grand lodge headquar
ters and being the home of Drove
No. 1 of the organization.
The B. P. O. D. is a women's of
ficial auxiliary to the Elks, organ
ized with a state charter and cere
monial rituals.
Organization was effected follow
ing a break with the Ladies' Order
of the Elks,
Mrs. Stanfield lias received queries
from many cities throughout the
country for information concerning
the organization of droves of the
B. P. O. D.
Statue of Sacred Heart.
Presented to Creighton
A statue of the Sacred Heart
was presented to Creighton univer
sity Thursday morning at 9 o'clock
by the students of the various de
partments. The psentation serv
ices included a procession of the
acolytes and university students,
and the singing of hymns.
Brendon Brown, arts senior, made
the presenation speech. Father Cas
silly accepted the statue in behalf
of the faculty and thrustees of the
university. The statue was blessed
by Rector McCormick. It was ded
icated as a thanks-offering for the
divine protection afforded the fac
ulty and students at the university
against the influenza plague which
afflicted the country..
Nebraska Deaf School
Commencement June 6
Commencement exercises at the
Nebraska School for the Deaf will be
held the evening of June 6 in the
school auditorium. Class colors arc
salmon pink and olive green, the
class motto, "Keep Smiling," and
the class flower, the Ophelia rose.
Oral graduates are Archie B. Bab
cock, North Loup; Edmund F. Bu
mann, Osmond; Vjvian L. Epley,
Omaha; Ethel Irene McElroy, Wil
bcr; John S. Reed jr., Lincoln, and
Viola A. Tikalsky, Verdigris. Man
uel graduates are Cassie Fay Dyer,,
Bertrand; Joseph L, Kalina, jr., J
Friend, and Greely G. Terpenning,
Arnold.
Brendan Brown Wins Medal
For Top Creighton Average
Brendan Brown, arts senior at
Creighton university, was awarded
the gold medal in philosophy. It is
the first time the medal, which is
donated by the Knights of Columbus,
has been awarded. It is awarded
to the student in the senior class
who has the highest average for the
senior year.
Governor Revokes
Extradition Paperl
Mi-Krlvie has revoke
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rAimui.iv. .:, , - , ii . J
week lor removal ot n. a. ""im
r.Hit tnanauer of the Firestone Tirl
v - . .... , I
& Rubber to. here, to wmcncsici
ind.. to answer embezzlcmew
charges. . , . 'J
r.n...i nnr i f Nf v e saiu incic wi
not sufficient . evidence againd
Hulke. , , 1 .
Several others were indicted wit
it. .ii, v.., 9 errand iurv in Winches
Aiun.w P ' J . I
. .ii..ft mhcTiif mcnt in con
nection wnn xnc uai-
Marine Tire & Rubber to.
Car Drivers Ask Extension
Of Downtown Parking Linx
pnc9 that the oarkinK limit I
30 minutes for automobiles on dowf
town streets be extended, pourea ir
the city council yesterday.
General sentiment of the counl
seemed to be to cut rather than -tend
the time.
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cripiratiorC1
for freest and most?
sympathetic uiusicaj
expression prompts.
ie -purchase ctii
Jiano
-not a desire to
the cost oTsuprenf
jxiscic quality.
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